"A memoir that is racy, pacy and crammed with scurrilous anecdotes – what more could you ask from the rocket man?..."

"a deft account of a terrific double act..."

"a literary version of a one-off Christmas single: brash and annoying, poignant and meaningful, all at the same time..."

"This memoir of consorting with Princess Margaret and the royal family is remarkable...."

"It takes real talent to produce a book like this...."

"her book is well worth reading..."

"The new Oxford poetry professor draws on The Odyssey in her skilful collection..."

"This book is without a scrap of sentimentality but provokes a deep emotional response: not from poignancy but in awe at the precision with which Riley records her grief...."

"A remarkable story of war, communism and espionage related with nuanced sympathy, but lacking reflection..."

"a collection of witty essays by a great critic about a great poet..."

"Patti Smith had a bad year in 2016 Year of the Monkey is the sly and wonderful book that resulted from it..."

"A fascination with archaeology runs through the Scottish poet’s collection of essays..."

"The final part of this great biography tells how Mrs Thatcher’s political instincts deserted ..."

"At a time when people wonder why anyone would want the job, this book is a helpful reminder of the good a PM can do..."

"This is an exquisite, deeply affecting book, one in which an experience of dislocation and loss is conveyed in prose that flows so clearly and gracefully it finds continuities and connections all the time...."

"This fascinating book is a behind-the-scenes glimpse, not at the creative, imaginative side of ‘the most successful movie franchise in history’, but at the business end of Bond..."

"In this compelling, but tightly controlled, memoir, he likes to blow his own trumpet, quoting letters and articles praising him...."

"Damrosch sketches the lives adroitly,..."

"Feaver has a vivid sense of the sheer amount of time Freud spent in the studio and the determination and independence of mind that kept him charged. ..."

"one is left with a sense of the author having not so much set the record straight as confirmed the suspicion that he is increasingly out of touch..."

"Henry’s instability, his search for a voice of his own, extends to his prose. He can be chatty and colloquial, all banter and bonhomie, recalling teenage high jinks with dizzied abandon..."

"The whistle-blower’s memoir is insightful, with a nice line in tech-inflected imagery...."

"Mansel is master of the well-chosen anecdote and of the pithy summary..."

"Where this volume breaks new ground in English is in conveying Brecht’s extraordinary poetic inventiveness...."

"Leslie Jamison covers a wide range of subjects but always with empathy and intelligence..."

"Nelson...assembles an astonishingly rich picture from the most unrewarding of texts...."

"These essays expand beautifully from their starting points..."

"What gives great gusto to The Glossy Years, indeed, is the spirit of unrepentant devilry Coleridge evokes..."

"Anderson strips out insulating layers of mythology to reach something that feels touchingly real..."

"For Blondie fans, Face It is rich in interesting snippets..."